Labour and Co-operative MP

Anneliese Dodds MP

Anneliese brought Jonathan Ashworth MP, Labour's Shadow Health Secretary, to Oxford this week. Anneliese and Jonathan met with a number of scientists, engineers and entrepreneurs who have been supported by Oxford Innovation to develop their health care technologies.

On Sunday 20 May, Anneliese completed the 25-mile Bike Oxford route in aid of Helen & Douglas House.
Helen and Douglas House offers hospice care for children and young people in Oxford, which costs £5 million a year to run. Up to 85% of the charity's funding comes from voluntary donations.

Oxford is now the least affordable place in Britain to buy a home, with the average home costing 16 times average salaries. Rents have rocketed, and we now have up to 60 people rough sleeping on our streets of a night. That has happened despite huge local efforts to improve the situation.

Anneliese Dodds met with a delegation of Liberian parliamentarians yesterday at her constituency office in East Oxford. Anneliese enjoyed sharing her experiences of being a constituency MP in the UK, and discussing the common challenges faced by parliamentarians in both countries.

Following visits to St Mungo’s and the Porch, Anneliese reflects on the rise of rough sleeping in the city of Oxford, and praises local homelessness charities and volunteers for their work supporting rough sleepers.